Adam was but human–this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
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Mark Twain
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be...
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Stephen Fry
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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Ray Bradbury
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech,...
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Michel Foucault
You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By St. Jerome
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
